Ugandan force ‘used cluster bombs in South Sudan’

Nigeria has warned civilians that Boko Haram is using deadly cluster bombs but campaigners say the Islamists may have got the banned weapons from the military in the first place.

>Ugandan troops have been killed fighting alongside South Sudan’s army, President Yoweri Museveni has said, the first official confirmation that foreign forces have an active combat role in the war-ravaged young nation.

 The production level of local manufacturing firms and industries that export to South Sudan has dropped by nearly 60 per cent, Uganda Manufacturers Association (Uma) has revealed.

Following a 72-hour ultimatum, air forces loyal to the Libyan government strike militants in Misrata for the first time.

Uganda is to deploy 736 troops, an equivalent of a battalion, to the East African intervention force for rapid response to regional conflicts, according to State House on Friday.

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Presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki recognized that the solution to the current crisis was within the reach of the peoples of South Sudan

The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan (AUCISS) (http://www.au.int) met with President Thabo Mbeki, in his capacity as Chairperson of the High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan, today 4 September 2014. In attendance were President Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Mahmood Mamdani and Lady Justice Sophia Akuffo.

The meeting follows nation wide...

Businesses in Uganda are struggling as instability continues in neighbouring South Sudan.

Sudan beat neighbours South Sudan in a penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals of the Cecafa Cup in Ethiopia.